Auckland University of Technology's 'Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute' (KEDRI) signed an agreement with Key Laboratory of Machine Perception, Peking University, in 2010. This year, the involved parties celebrate five years of cooperation.

Prof Zeng-Guang Hou of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was awarded KEDRI's newest Distinguished Visiting Researcher. This award is given only to researchers at the highest international level who contribute to KEDRI.

Both the Chinese and the New Zealand Ministries of Education support the tripartite joint research on ‘Computational Intelligence: Methods, Systems and Applications for Ecological and Environmental Modelling in China and New Zealand’.

This workshop is a part of joint research initiatives of both the Chinese and New Zealand Ministries of Education to support the tripartite joined research for computational intelligence approach for ecological and environmental modelling.

The Marie Curie Fellowship allows an outstanding scholar from outside the EU to work with a European team for a period of up to about 18 months. Professor Kasabov has chosen to go to the Universitaet Zuerich and ETH in Switzerland for a total period of 12 months.